This report describes the key characteristics of services and recipients and also looks at the distribution of services relative to the needs of the population. At 30 June 2010 there were around 47,700 recipients of care packages. Around 1,150 providers delivered low-care packages, 370 providers delivered high-care packages and 240 providers delivered high-care specialised dementia packages.

ISSN: 1329-5705

ISBN: 978-1-74249-196-7

Cat. no: AGE 65

Pages: 132

Findings from this report:

52% of people who left CACP in 2009–10 had used it for at least a year, compared with 40% for EACH and 34% for EACHD

The most common reason for separation was moving into residential care (46% of CACP and EACH, and 66% of EACHD)

51,500 packages were available at 30 June 2010

Around 47,700 people were receiving an aged care package at 30 June 2010—84% of them were using CACP